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Thomas Edward Lawrence was a brilliant polymath: he was an
archaeologist before World War I, and during the war he became a
map-maker, intelligence agent and leader of Bedouin and Arab
insurgent forces against the Turks, developing and applying a
powerful guerrilla warfare strategy. From 1919-1926, while serving
as diplomat at the post-war Paris Conference and in the Colonial
Office under Winston Churchill (who became a friend and admirer),
and then in the Royal Air Force and the Tank Corps, Lawrence wrote
several drafts of his memoir of the war, Seven Pillars of
Wisdom (1926), which is now regarded as one of the
masterpieces of twentieth century British autobiographical writing.
Praised by Hardy, Forster, Shaw and Churchill, …

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